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Prairie Rose Cowgirl Birthday party blogged here: www.aestheticnest.com/2012/11/party-prairie-rose-cowgirl-...
Iowa Prairie Conference 2013 field trip to "Prairie Song Farm" in Dorchester on Friday, July 19 - Photo by Maria da Silva
Title: Prairie Canyon Ranch
Call Number: 2008.022.0097
Creator: Stephens, Sheila R
Description: Boy Scouts and helpers install ground cover at the Prairie Canyon Ranch.
Dates: 2007-04-17
Place: Prairie Canyon Ranch (Franktown, Colo.)
Physical Description: Digital. Digital Camera. Dim Notes:2592 x 1944 pixels Copy
Collection: Prairie Canyon Ranch Visual Materials
Subjects: Colorado; Douglas County (Colo.); Franktown (Colo.); Colorado; Douglas County (Colo.); Prairie Canyon Ranch (Franktown, Colo.)
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Built in 1914 at no. 911 Wellington Street East.
"This is a Prairie-style single-story residence, noticeably located at the south-west corner of Wellington and Woodward in the city’s east-central area. It encompasses part of Lot 15, Plan 568 and Lot 29, Plan 930. GIS coordinates: 705,711.336 5,154,111.585 Meters
This handsome, distinctive, well maintained home is the best example of a Prairie-style residence to be found in Sault Ste. Marie. It is an elegant Craftsman style bungalow with a variety of gently pitched roof slopes and a small hipped dormer. The eaves are deep and bracketed. The columns are plain with square abacuses and no base. The inclusion of classical modillions in a residence is rare in Sault Ste. Marie and to Prairie-style homes. A variety of rustic building materials have been utilized: stucco, wood, brick and stone. The window groupings consist of both casement and sash with inner muntin bars. Those windows on the front have been replaced with modern aluminum windows but the windows around the sunroom on the east side and those on the partial second floor are original. Many of the original storm windows are stored in the garage. Craftsmanship in the building is excellent yet simple and functional. Even the interior fireplace sports hand-carved brackets of similar design to those supporting the overhanging exterior eaves. With the exception of the kitchen and bathroom, the main floor rooms are still finished with the original oak trim and floors. An old photo of the house indicates that cedar shingles once adorned the roof.
This residence was constructed, in its present form, in 1914 for Richard H. Carney who was District manager for Canada Life Assurance Co. It was the Carney family who was responsible for construction of the Carney Block on Queen St. It thus reflects the affluence of an upper middle class business family which was profiting from the Clergue industrial expansion of the day. A 1914 date and initials of the stone mason builder may be found in the basement wall mortar between the sandstone pieces. It is likely this sandstone was quarried from the locks as was typical for the day. This house was purchased in 1939 by the MacIntosh family who owned it until 2004.
The key exterior features that embody the heritage value of 911 Wellington St. E. include:
- Variety of gently pitched roof slopes provide horizontal emphasis reflecting the Prairiestyle bungalow
- Clerestory lighting that provides light to a half story loft
- A hipped dormer and deep bracketed eaves
- Columns with abacuses and no base but adorned with modillions
- Rustic building materials including stucco, wood, brick and stone
- Original casement windows with sash and inner muntin bars on the sunroom (east side)
and on the half story loft
- Home and property have been well maintained in traditional style with little change to
the exterior
- An interior with oak trim, baseboards and flooring unchanged save for the kitchen and
bathroom
- A beautiful fireplace with brackets supporting the mantle matching those under the
eaves on the exterior
- The best example of a classical Prairie-style residence in Sault Ste. Marie distinctively
located in a prominent east-central location
- A residence which reflects the affluence of a prominent Sault business family built
during the heyday of the Clergue industrial empire" - info from the Sault Ste. Marie Municipal Heritage Committee.
"Sault Ste. Marie (/ˈsuː seɪnt məˈriː/ SOO-seint-ma-REE) is a city on the St. Marys River in Ontario, Canada, close to the Canada–US border. It is the seat of the Algoma District and the third largest city in Northern Ontario, after Sudbury and Thunder Bay.
The Ojibwe, the indigenous Anishinaabe inhabitants of the area, call this area Baawitigong, meaning "place of the rapids." They used this as a regional meeting place during whitefish season in the St. Mary's Rapids. (The anglicized form of this name, Bawating, is used in institutional and geographic names in the area.)
To the south, across the river, is the United States and the Michigan city of the same name. These two communities were one city until a new treaty after the War of 1812 established the border between Canada and the United States in this area at the St. Mary's River. In the 21st century, the two cities are joined by the International Bridge, which connects Interstate 75 on the Michigan side, and Huron Street (and former Ontario Secondary Highway 550B) on the Ontario side. Shipping traffic in the Great Lakes system bypasses the Saint Mary's Rapids via the American Soo Locks, the world's busiest canal in terms of tonnage that passes through it, while smaller recreational and tour boats use the Canadian Sault Ste. Marie Canal.
French colonists referred to the rapids on the river as Les Saults de Ste. Marie and the village name was derived from that. The rapids and cascades of the St. Mary's River descend more than 6 m (20 ft) from the level of Lake Superior to the level of the lower lakes. Hundreds of years ago, this slowed shipping traffic, requiring an overland portage of boats and cargo from one lake to the other. The entire name translates to "Saint Mary's Rapids" or "Saint Mary's Falls". The word sault is pronounced [so] in French, and /suː/ in the English pronunciation of the city name. Residents of the city are called Saultites.
Sault Ste. Marie is bordered to the east by the Rankin and Garden River First Nation reserves, and to the west by Prince Township. To the north, the city is bordered by an unincorporated portion of Algoma District, which includes the local services boards of Aweres, Batchawana Bay, Goulais and District, Peace Tree and Searchmont. The city's census agglomeration, including the townships of Laird, Prince and Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional and the First Nations reserves of Garden River and Rankin, had a total population of 79,800 in 2011.
Native American settlements, mostly of Ojibwe-speaking peoples, existed here for more than 500 years. In the late 17th century, French Jesuit missionaries established a mission at the First Nations village. This was followed by development of a fur trading post and larger settlement, as traders, trappers and Native Americans were attracted to the community. It was considered one community and part of Canada until after the War of 1812 and settlement of the border between Canada and the US at the Ste. Mary's River. At that time, the US prohibited British traders from any longer operating in its territory, and the areas separated by the river began to develop as two communities, both named Sault Ste. Marie." - info from Wikipedia.
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Prairie Homestead has the only white prairie dog town in the world. There is an occasional white prairie dog here and there, mostly in captivity and most trace back to our town.
Prairie strips at Neal Smith Wildlife Refuge near Prairie City, Iowa, among the first established in Iowa. Iowa State University is studying their effectiveness for erosion control and other benefits.
Please Credit: NRCS/SWCS photo by Lynn Betts
Daggerwing
Daggerwing is full of warblers, mostly palms and Prairies. They are not skittish at all and may even pose like this one in the picture.
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Prairie strips at Neal Smith Wildlife Refuge near Prairie City, Iowa, among the first established in Iowa. Iowa State University is studying their effectiveness for erosion control and other benefits.
Please Credit: NRCS/SWCS photo by Lynn Betts
A prairie hill in the Nygren Wetland Preserve.
It'd be nice if it was sunny and if I'd used a smaller aperture to achieve a greater depth of field. We were 1½ miles down the trail when the sun finally came out.
A short distance down the trail (to the right here), a not-quite adult bald eagle flew over us. His tail just about, but not quite all, white. Got a lousy photo, but I'll put it on Facebook.
Stitched from 5 frames the original size JPEG is 17.3meg. This is a good example of why lots and lots --AND LOTS!-- of small details (like foliage and flowers and leaves) result in a HUGE, uncompressible JPEG.
We spotted this prairie smoke at Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge in Minnesota.
Photo by Mike Budd/USFWS.
Prairie Blazing Star found on a walk in a Tall Grass Prairie restoration near Elkhart Iowa. Taken 7/31/18.
Nikon Coolpix S210
Prairie strips at Neal Smith Wildlife Refuge near Prairie City, Iowa, among the first established in Iowa. Iowa State University is studying their effectiveness for erosion control and other benefits.
Please Credit: NRCS/SWCS photo by Lynn Betts
There's a giant prairie chicken on the side of the road on the way back from up north. We had to stop.
The Prairie Dogs in Caprock Canyons State Park weren't happy to have their town invaded by the bison herd. I could hear them "barking" at these big guys.
Prairie restoration using controlled burning of the prairie grass at the Little Calumet River Prairie Nature Preserve by the IUN Science department.
HQs for KPBS. This was once the property of CP Dewey. Barn was built in 1911 and the bunk house was built in 1912.
With the prairie wild fires that recently raced across southern Alberta and the complete closure of Cypress Hills Prov. park, thoughts turned to not so long ago. The grass was green and storms seemed to be almost a daily occurance.
Prairie Strips on Larry and Margaret Stone's farm near Traer, IA. Strips were frost seeded in January 2016 and this photo was taken in July 2017 showing the first year of growth.
Please Credit: NRCS/SWCS photo by Lynn Betts
Prairie Strips on Tim Smith's farm, Eagle Grove, IA. Tim farms 800 acres of corn and soybeans, and seeded prairie strips onto his land in the Spring of 2013. This photo was taken in July of 2016 in their third year of growth.
Please Credit: NRCS/SWCS photo by Lynn Betts
Prairie strips at Neal Smith Wildlife Refuge near Prairie City, Iowa, among the first established in Iowa. Iowa State University is studying their effectiveness for erosion control and other benefits.
Please Credit: NRCS/SWCS photo by Lynn Betts
Prairie Rose Cowgirl Birthday party blogged here: www.aestheticnest.com/2012/11/party-prairie-rose-cowgirl-...
Clifford Messinger Dry Prairie & Savanna Preserve
Rice Lake Dry Prairire Unit
Wisconsin State Natural Area #230
Walworth County
A Prairie Warbler on a Briar Photographed along a cedar row within the Appalachia Nature preserve here in Ohio this past weekend...
Frost seeding contour prairie strips on top of snow on Margaret and Larry Stone farm near Traer, Iowa.
Please Credit: NRCS/SWCS photo by Lynn Betts
4100 block of South Prairie in Bronzeville, with Willa Rawls Manor (a retirement community) in the background.
Photo from 1/2014
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"Police involved in the investigation said the informant attended a meeting of gang generals when Fort reportedly ordered the killing of Willie Bibbs, 33, of 4120 S. Prairie Ave. Bibbs was shot to death by two men wearing ski masks as he emerged from a South Side tavern on June 15, 1981.
Bibbs was a competing drug dealer and a member of a gang that Fort said had 'shown disrespect' for the El Rukns by assuming 'Stones' as part of its name, mimicking the El Rukns` roots as the Blackstone Rangers and, later, the Black P Stone Nation, investigators said."
Frost seeding contour prairie strips on top of snow on Margaret and Larry Stone farm near Traer, Iowa. January 2016.
Please Credit: NRCS/SWCS photo by Lynn Betts
Prairie strips at Neal Smith Wildlife Refuge near Prairie City, Iowa, among the first established in Iowa. Iowa State University is studying their effectiveness for erosion control and other benefits.
Please Credit: NRCS/SWCS photo by Lynn Betts